Essays in musical analysis by Donald Tovey was published in six serious-seeming volumes from the OxfordUniversity Press, 1935-9. The final volume includes supplementary essays on several composers, glossary, and index. Assuming the (uncredited) index to be the work of the author, it would seem that, exhausted by his labours, he took the task of indexing as an opportunity for relaxation and merry-making in print. The index is 18 pages long, relating to all six volumes, and shows signs of straining to entertain, but thereby becoming a sadly ineffective finding aid. Consider the following selection of its entries, quoted verbatim and as punctuated (forenames are rarely given in this index):
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